On Hopium

Clarifying an important misunderstanding

A collaboration with Andre from FreeAtlantis

This last year, the word ‘hopium’ has been thrown around a lot among Conservative groups. It denotes a decidedly negative term, and is used against those who try to find a way out of this seemingly hopeless situation, with Biden in the White House after a succesful steal, sky high inflation, war, rising prices, lowering standard of living, etc.

Thinking about ‘devolution’ or it’s cousin ‘government in exile‘ is enough to warrant that label. Trying to find a way where Durham will lead to actual prison time for the higher-ups (read: Clinton), is done away as hopium, as well.

But what is ‘hopium’? The Urban Dictionary defines it like this:

“The metaphorical subtance that causes people to believe in a false hope. It is often paired up with copium.

Opposed to copium, which represents the rationalization of the current situation, hopium represents the belief that the situation will someday improve.”

YourDictionary.com keeps it simple, as a derogatory term: “Irrational or unwarranted optimism.”

False hope, or irrational or unwarranted optimism.

That is a strong word.

Now, that doesn’t mean that such false hope and its peddlers are not around. People are getting desperate, and are looking for anything that points to a way out of the current chaos and hardships.

Or for others, it is a result of improper vetting, a problem with their methodology of how they process information rather than a real ‘kick’ on wishing things were better than they really are. TruthHammer888 summarized that like this on his Telegram page: “Hopium comes from leaping to conclusions about what events in motion MAY mean.”

You get messages like this:

I don’t know what that message was about, but it is crazy. Hopium, clearly. Posts like this range from good people who go too far, to attempts to discredit hope altogether. Especially when it is alarmist, as well, at which point the whole “boy who cried wolf” story comes into play.

So what I ALSO see, is this tendency to put away EVERY attempt to point at the positives that are at play as false hope, an irrational and unwarranted optimism. In a way, I understand, I really do. It has been a year and a half since the steal in November 2020, and nothing seems to have come from the many lawsuits that were thrown around in the immediate aftermath. Even the Supreme Court has punted on this topic, refusing even to take a very solid looking case brought to SCOTUS by Texas.

Or Durham, until very recently someone nobody had ever heard of, and those that did, simply shook their head: he’s not doing anything. And if he even is, it will not bear any fruit, anyway. Futile!

Some wrote on a message board: “We've been surviving on hopium for the last year or so, with not a ton to show for it. Yes, people are waking up, but as a lawyer it's hard to survive on that in the face of actual reality. Unpopular opinion or not.”

It is clear: hopium is simply another word for desinformation. Fake news. Or a grift to have people continue to click on articles and blogs, to keep subscribing. A hallucination, self-deceit for people who are unwilling or unable to face reality.

Again, there are definitely those who deal with that type of catchy mental ‘drugs’.

As I have taken you through my series ‘The War for our Minds’, it should be clear that we are under a relentless and constant attack, aimed at how we think, aimed at disrupting how we ACT on what we think (or don’t think). One important goal of this cognitive warfare, as stated in the studies and reports of our militaries, is to undermine trust among the target population. Their trust in their government, their institutions, in each other, and also in themselves. Adding catchy words such as ‘hopium’ to attack people within a group, is part of that: attack those who actually are trying to help, to silence them, to intimidate them and their potential followers, or to simply smear them as idiots who deal in irrational and unwarranted optimism. Not the people to look to for information! Move on, don’t trust anyone!

Another important goal, is to demoralize the target. This is what I want to focus on.
Take away the hope your opponent has for winning, or gaining sufficient success, and they will surrender, or cease to be an effective fighting force. Sieges are one such way: surround the enemy with a grand display of power, showing that resistance is futile. Catapult the heads of that raiding party they sent out back into the city walls, to show them that they are truly trapped. Or as a besieged city, catapult back into the enemy camp outside the walls the last sheep and cows you had, after having them gorge and fill themselves on the last grain you had, to show them you still had plenty of food, enough to ‘share’ with the enemy. All designed to make the other side lose hope, and give up and surrender.

Humans need hope, in general. We cannot live without it.

It is also one of the theological cardinal virtues:

“Hope being a combination of the desire for something and expectation of receiving it, the virtue is hoping for Divine union and so eternal happiness. While faith is a function of the intellect, hope is an act of the will.”

Notice how hope is described as an act of the will, and as such it is a prime target for cognitive warfare. Take away hope, and their will to go on will crumble. There might be a short outburst of mob violence, as the last, desperate attempt to ‘do’ something and turn things around, but the next phase is apathy: there is no hope, there is no future, best to simply bow and accept the new normal…

Hope is also often misunderstood. It isn’t ‘wishful thinking’, it isn’t part of our emotional being (though it can be used in such an emotional way), but is connected with our will, with a proper analysis of the field ahead, and with our ability to act. Hope is defined by several psychologists as agency (willpower) + pathways (which they call analogously ‘pathpower’), which leads to goalsetting (future succes). Having agency without pathways, and what you have are simply wishes. On the opposite, having pathways without agency, and you have only opportunities that are not taken/recognized. Have neither, and you face a complete impossibility. But with both agancy and pathways presents, there is a reasonable possibilty. And hope is the expectation of that reasonable possiblity.

As I said earlier: people NEED hope. Without it, we wither away.
And there actually is plenty of hope. Not always on my timeline, nor according to my own wishes and preferences, but undeniably there.

Is devolution real? If so, under what form? How far does that reach? I have no idea, honestly. But I DO know that there have been very notable irregularities that need explaining.

Is Durham real? I think at this point, absolutely yes. And it is undeniable that he is gunning for Hillary Clinton and the DNC, and all those involved, using the legalese term for conspiracy.

Will the steal of 2020 be corrected and those guilty of perpetrating it be brought to justice? The diamonds returned? You bet. 2000 Mules will be the starting shot, I suspect, and already the state of Georgia is issuing subpoenas on the issues that True The Vote has uncovered, weeks before the premiere of their documentary 2000 Mules. (Even after in October 2021 the Georgia Bureau of Investigations claimed that there wasn’t enough evidence to warrant an investigation in ‘alleged ballot harvesting in 2020’! That breach of confidentiality [!!!] about that case was likely a failed attempt to derail True The Vote and their mission.)

All that moving ever so slowly, but methodologically and unstoppable.

Are the above claims ‘irrational and unwarranted’? Absolutely not. They are grounds for actual hope, as does the realization that the Great Awaking is real, as well, with record numbers of people realizing that the promised ‘build back better’ is a scam, regretting their vote for Biden, as are the many people who are registering to vote as republicans, and not just that, but are registering for and filling in slots in their local election boards, as witnesses and supervisors, in school boards, in local party organizations, and so on. How many states have by now put forth very important voting reforms, aimed to prevent a repeat of the many or at least some of the irregularities witnessed in 2020? True, not every state, nor in equal measure, but one has to start somewhere, right? Imagine the clamoring across the whole United States once it becomes clear just how widespread and organized the fraud was, and which loopholes were exploited!

Not everyone who cries ‘Hopium!’ is doing so nefariously. Some people really don’t see any hope, as they carry the full burden of the incredible societal decay and crash these last 2 years (job loss, destroyed careers, being socially ostracized, perhaps deaths in the family because of Covid and the pushing/forcing of vaccines and toxic drugs, etc.), or they genuinely can’t see the type of hope the person they called out for peddling ‘hopium’ to was referring to or the reasons that was based on. But there also is an overarching use of that term to silence and divide those who work against the elites, and try to expose the steal and the machinations to maintain their power. It is a simple attempt to discredit those who work to expose the elites.

I think we also have to distinguish between rational hopium (just plain hope, really) and unhinged prayer for the unlikely (actual hopium). In this view, rational hope always accepts and takes into account the possibility that its understanding is incorrect and that a more pessimistic view may be correct. It is based on an actual analysis of the situation, and is NOT mere wishful thinking and emotional reactions. As any reasonable analyst will admit: they are not infallible.

Another good test, is to see if the ‘hopium’ is merely sussing people to sleep, towards complacency, or if it calls to action, as well. Very often, people cling to false hope because it is ‘easy’. It satisfies the emotional demands and urgencies, a way out of the crushing despair that is looming and the fear that comes with having to face that. True hope is a call to action, to participate, and is less about emotion and more about a reasoned assessment. Not something ‘irrational and unwarranted’.

Another point about this is more worrisome. Just as on January 6th, the elites try to push ordinary people to the brink, so those people will (re-)act violently. That would in turn allow the government to crack down hard, and call in emergency powers to go after ‘all those involved’ (read: any their opponents). This is what we saw in Ottawa, as well, during the trucker protests: violent provocations by the police, aimed to provoke a violent response. (But the truckers were too upright, and didn’t fall for such underhanded tactics!) People without hope are easier to manipulate and steer, much less than a people with a strong hope, as such hope translates into a strong will to fight on.

Today, the inflation we see, and the poverty that comes right behind it, is BY DESIGN. They know that printing money the way they do is the main cause. They know that the oil prices are artificially high, and that a simple return to the Trump era policies would immediately start lowering prices, and make the US independent from Russian gas and oil again (of any foreign oil and gas, really!). The many issues in the supply chain (did you see the insanely backed up Chinese ports? Unlike anything we’ve seen so far, even last year because of Covid?) and food production (thinking about that strange spell of fires in large food processing plants, as well as reports of a bird flu, with ‘preventive’ mass slaughtering of chickens), as well as the prolonged fighting in Ukraine (Ukraine being a major grain producer, and the war preventing the farmers there to sow their fields), might trigger food and other shortages (strangely, as predicted well before the war in Ukraine by Schwab and other such elite people).

They want the chaos, as such is an ideal situation for revolution: push through their drastic policies, without push-back, or without being noticed until too late.

Hungry people, who lost their jobs and their homes in foreclosure, have nothing left to lose. They form the fertile ground from which violent mobs (are there any other types of mobs?) will arise. That is the last, desperate attempt by the elites to stop any reveal and threat to their agenda, and create a useful condition to ram through their agenda (which would never be accepted on a fair ballot).

But the good news? Hope is the answer. Mobs form in despair, absent hope…

Tell people that there IS hope. That we CAN and WILL get through this. That election reform is happening, and can be improved by all our participation and efforts. That we can and should VOTE. Be involved in our local communities. That the larger scale efforts by Durham and True the Vote are ongoing, and leading to results. That the channels of free speech are being re-opened, allowing all this news to be distributed without interference, finally!
Can we still bungle those opportunities? Of course! Hope is not an infallible prediction, nor ‘fate set in stone’. But we can realize we HAVE those opportunities, and that it is up to us to make the best use possible of them to set things right again. Directly or indirectly.

Nothing irrational about that, nothing unwarranted!

Hope. Not hopium.

Resist those who want to push us into despair and apathy.

Mock the naked emperor, wherever you see him.

Go Vote.

Stop being afraid to speak out: we are the MAJORITY!

We ARE taking our country back, and we WILL restore it.

And if you think that is simply ‘hopium’, to deceive others? Too bad, you’re dead wrong. I won’t give in to fear, any longer. The facts are there. The time to act is now.

MAGA!